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I’ve intentionally waited a good while to share this story so that I could have as much emotion removed from its telling as possible. Also because I don’t want to unduly influence people’s perception of a legit and by all accounts honorable business providing a valuable service to the marketplace. It’s purely personal, as you’ll…
About a year ago, my son Gabriel informed me he wanted a cat. Not a dog, not a ferret, not a guinea pig, not even a mongoose. A cat, or nothing at all. I was open to it, and truth be told I’ve always been partial to dogs, but to each his own right? Well,…
A couple years ago, I wised up to social media and took steps to severely curtail my activity on it. I was at one point a legit Facebook addict. I would make a comment somewhere, then “get into it” with complete strangers, thinking I was somehow adding to the value of the global economy by…
Imagine Batman without the Joker, or the Penguin, or any of the other villains in the comics and movies. Or Superman without Lex Luthor, or those three individuals with equal powers to Superman but who broke bad in their spirit and wished harm and destruction upon Planet Earth? How utterly boring would that be? It…
“Google Big Big Train. Your life will become better for it.” I heard my friend Tom Woods say this on his podcast probably 7 years ago. I swear by just about everything old Tom Woods says so I checked it out, and he was right. I was introduced to the world of progressive rock music,…